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Looking For Header Recommendations

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by IRQVET, Jul 4, 2018.

  1. Jul 4, 2018
    IRQVET

    IRQVET Bubbaification Exorcist

    Tallahassee, FL.
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    Can anyone recommend a set of headers for the Dauntless that does not require cutting into the fire wall? It appears all the outside the frame rail headers require cutting into the firewall, and I want to keep my sheet metal as original as possible. Anything aftermarket that is plug in play for inside the firewall?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Jul 4, 2018
    tarry99

    tarry99 Member

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    Sanderson / Novak...........makes a shorty header that keeps the pipes inside the frame rails.........
     
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  3. Jul 4, 2018
    mike starck

    mike starck Member

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    Get you a set of Remflex gaskets when you install them. You won't be sorry.
     
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  4. Jul 4, 2018
    homersdog

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    I helped my dad cut the firewall for the driver's side header in the winter of 1976. I was 14. I got to be the one laying on my back on ice covered driveway looking up at him running the jigsaw to make cuts.

    Wow that brings back memories!
    Anyway if you're putting block huggers on it I think you are going to have to make other non-stock mods anyway. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
     
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  5. Jul 4, 2018
    Jake0223

    Jake0223 New Member

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    Has anyone else had bad luck with the Sanderson headers? I bought some a while back and the quality was terrible. I’ve heard good things, but the flanges on mine weren’t straight, leaks around the welds, and weld splatter everywhere. I was very disappointed and I don’t send stuff back very often. I did get a refund. I never said much though as I think other people have had better luck and maybe mine were a one time issue. I ended up going with outside the frame headers. Although they seem to be a little longer than I’d like. I’m curious as to which headers other guys have used as well, particularly ones shorter than mine.
     
  6. Jul 5, 2018
    mike starck

    mike starck Member

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    I tried to form the edge after cutting away sheet metal so it looked like it was that way original.Just in case you decide to go with fenderwell style. note:i had not discovered the Remflex gaskets when the pictures where taken. mike Jeep '69  aug 2013 017.JPG Jeep '69  aug 2013 022 (1).JPG
     
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